Rice Cake

Pounding mochi in an usu

Making mochi with a modern piece of equipment

Mochi (Japanese: 餅; Chinese: 麻糬) is a Japanese rice cake made of glutinous rice pounded into paste and molded into shape. In Japan it is traditionally made in a ceremony called mochitsuki. While eaten year-round, mochi is a traditional food for the Japanese New Year and commonly sold and eaten at that time. Rice Cake Photography day December, 2002 Photography person MASA Photography place At Osaka City Tsurumi-ku rice cake making convention File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Rice Cake Photography day December, 2002 Photography person MASA Photography place At Osaka City Tsurumi-ku rice cake making convention File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Mochituki Photography day 　December, 2002 Photography person　 MASA Photography place　 At Osaka City Tsurumi-ku rice cake making convention　 http://commons. ... Mochituki Photography day 　December, 2002 Photography person　 MASA Photography place　 At Osaka City Tsurumi-ku rice cake making convention　 http://commons. ... Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 1114 KB)Electronic machine used to produce Japanese mochi, in action. ... Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 1114 KB)Electronic machine used to produce Japanese mochi, in action. ... Rice cake can refer to several foods: Puffed rice cakes, made from puffed rice and sold as a healthy snack food in North America and other Western countries. ... Glutinous rice ( or Oryza glutinosa; also called sticky rice, sweet rice, waxy rice, botan rice, mochi rice, and pearl rice) is a type of short-grained Asian rice that is especially sticky when cooked. ... This article is in need of attention. ... The kadomatsu is a traditional decoration for the new year holiday. ...

Mochi is similar to the Chinese rice cake nian gao, however it is molded right after it is pounded, whereas nian gao is baked once again after to solidify the mixture as well as sanitize it. In Korea, a similar food is called chapssaltteok (RR; Hangul: 찹쌀떡), chapssal meaning "glutinous rice," followed by tteok. In the Philippines, it is called butsi in Tagalog and is coated with sesame seeds. Rice cake can refer to several foods: Puffed rice cakes, made from puffed rice and sold as a healthy snack food in North America and other Western countries. ... Two layers of nian gao with a filling of sweet red bean paste Nian gao or Niangao, (Chinese:粘糕 or 年糕 lit. ... Korea (Korean: 한국 in South Korea or ì¡°ì„  in North Korea, see below) is a geographic area, civilization, and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... Jamo redirects here. ... Tteok (IPA: ) or Ddeog is a Korean sweet cake made with glutinous rice flour, also known as sweet rice or chapssal, by steaming. ... Tagalog (pronunciation: ) is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ... Binomial name Sesamum indicum L. Sesame (Sesamum indicum) is a flowering plant in the genus Sesamum. ...

Mochi is very sticky and somewhat tricky to eat. After each new year, it is reported in the Japanese media how many people die from choking on mochi. The victims are usually elderly. Because it is so sticky, it is difficult to dislodge via the Heimlich maneuver. In the Japanese comedy film Tampopo, a house vacuum is used to suck it out. (Some lifesaving experts say that a vacuum cleaner is actually efficient for stuck mochi.^[1]) The Heimlich maneuver The Heimlich maneuver, also known as abdominal thrusts, is a first aid procedure for clearing an obstructed airway. ... Tampopo (タンポポ or 蒲公英 which translate to dandelion) is a 1985 Japanese comedy film by director Juzo Itami, starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto and Ken Watanabe. ... Regular vacuum cleaner for home use. ...

Mochitsuki

Mochitsuki is the traditional mochi-pounding ceremony in Japan.

1. Polished glutinous rice is soaked overnight and cooked.
2. The wet rice is pounded with wooden mallets (kine) in a traditional mortar (usu). Two people will alternate the work, one pounding and the other turning and wetting the mochi. They must keep a steady rhythm or they may accidentally injure one another with the heavy kine.
3. The sticky mass is then formed into various shapes (usually a sphere or cube).

Mochi may also be made in an automatic mochi machine, similar to a breadmaker. In fact, mochi can be made using a breadmaker if the rice is soaked and steamed separately and the machine can be started in a kneading mode. The three-letter acronym, USU, can stand for Utah State University Uniformed Services University Universidade Santa Úrsula (Brazil) Universal Student Unionism (Australia) University of Sydney Union Urals A.M. Gorky State University (Russia) Usu is also a Japanese mortar. ... Breadmaker A breadmaker is a home appliance for baking bread, it handles the process from ingredients to a finished loaf automatically. ...

Making mochi at home is possible without an automatic machine. Use a bamboo steamer or other apparatus that the sweets will not stick to while steaming. Add only enough water to allow the flour to stick together, form a small circle of the dough, then put a small amount of bean paste in the center. Close the dough over the paste and place in the steamer until the mochi congeals. Immediately upon removing the mochi from the steamer, coat the mochi in more sweet rice flour to prevent it from sticking to all creation.

Popular uses for mochi

Confectionery

Many types of traditional wagashi (Japanese traditional sweets) are made with mochi. For example, daifuku is a soft round mochi stuffed with sweet filling, such as sweetened red bean paste (an) or white bean paste (shiro an). Ichigo daifuku is a version containing a whole strawberry inside. A selection of wagashi to be served during a Japanese tea ceremony. ... Daifuku (大福) is a soft rice cake stuffed with sweet filling, for example an - a sweetened bean jam. ... Red bean paste (Chinese: or ; Pinyin: Hóngdòushā; Hokkien: angtaosa) or azuki bean paste (Japanese: an ), anko ), ogura )) is a sweet, dark purplish-red paste used in Chinese cuisine, Japanese confectionery and Korean cuisine. ... Ichigo daifuku ) is a variation of Daifuku, which is a Japanese confection. ... - Species 20+ species; see text The strawberry (Fragaria) is a genus of plants in the family Rosaceae, and the fruit of these plants. ...

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Ice cream

Main article: Mochi ice cream

Small balls of ice cream are wrapped inside a mochi covering to make mochi ice cream. In Japan this is manufactured by Lotte under the name Yukimi Daifuku, "snow-viewing daifuku". In the United States the grocery chain Trader Joe's, H Mart, and Mollie Stone's sell mochi ice cream in flavors of chocolate, mango, green tea, vanilla, and strawberry. It is popular in California , Hawaii, and Portland, Oregon. A Japanese-owned company (Mikawaya) operating in Los Angeles makes Mochi Ice Cream, which is the variety that is sold by Trader Joe's and Mollie Stone's. Mochi ice cream is a confection made from mochi (pulverized sticky rice) with an ice cream filling. ... Missing image Ice cream is often served on a stick Boxes of ice cream are often found in stores in a display freezer. ... Mochi ice cream is a confection made from mochi (pulverized sticky rice) with an ice cream filling. ... Lotte Group is a large international chaebol (conglomerate) founded in June 1948 in Tokyo, Japan by a South Korean businessman, Shin Kyuk-Ho (, ). Shin Kyuk-Ho is also known by his Japanese name Takeo Shigemitsu ). Originally called , the company grew from selling chewing gum to children in post-war Japan... Yukimi Daifuku (Japanese: 雪見だいふく snow-viewing daifuku) is a brand of ice cream manufactured by the Japanese/Korean company Lotte. ... Trader Joes is a privately held chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. ... Han Ah Reum—which also markets itself as H Mart—is a Korean supermarket chain with several locations in the United States and Canada. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Official language(s) English, Hawaiian Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Area  Ranked 43rd  - Total 10,931 sq mi (29,311 km²)  - Width n/a miles (n/a km)  - Length 1,522 miles (2,450 km)  - % water 41. ... Nickname: Location in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country United States State Oregon County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter Area  - City  145. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Trader Joes is a privately held chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. ...

Soup

• Oshiruko or ozenzai is a sweet azuki bean soup with pieces of mochi. In winter, Japanese people often eat it to warm themselves.
• Chikara udon (meaning "power udon") is a dish consisting of udon noodles in soup topped with toasted mochi.

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New Year specialties

• Kagami mochi is a New Year decoration, which is traditionally broken and eaten in a ritual called Kagami biraki (mirror opening).
• Zoni soup is a soup containing rice cakes. Zoni is also eaten on New Year's Day. In addition to mochi, zoni contains vegetables like honeywort, carrot, and red and white colored boiled kamaboko.
• Kinako mochi is a mochi dish that is traditionally made on New Year's Day for luck. This style of mochi preparation includes roasting the mochi over a fire or stove, and then dipping it into a mixture of soy sauce, water and sugar, before finally briefly coating it in kinako (soy flour).

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Other

• Warabimochi is not true mochi, but a jelly-like confection made from bracken starch and covered or dipped in kinako (sweet toasted soybean flour). It is popular in the summertime, and often sold from trucks, not unlike ice cream trucks in Western countries.

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Other trivia

• In Japanese folk tradition, rabbits living on the Moon produce mochi in the traditional method with mallets and mortars. (This legend is based on the traditional pareidolia that identifies the markings of the moon as a rabbit pounding mochi.)
• Mocchi is the name of a monster type and character in the game and TV series Monster Rancher. It is so named for its physical resemblance to a type of mochi pastry.
• Mochi competed on popular British television show, Brainiac: Science Abuse, shown on Sky One (and on other channels in a few other European countries). The competition was to find out which was the world's chewiest food. Mochi didn't win; the English Devonshire toffee won.^{[citation needed]}
• Historically, the word, mochi was used to describe birdlime. As the food became popular, tori-mochi (bird mochi) came to be used instead.

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Humor

In Vietnamese culture, a common name is "Chi." Therefore, a humorous comment people make about their friends named Chi is, "I don't want any mo' Chi", which is a clever play on words (pun). A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech, or word play which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words within a phrase or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. ...

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